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The Power of Collaborative Leadership:: Lessons for the Learning Organization
The Power of Collaborative Lessons for the Learning Organization helps business leaders realize the promise of organizational learning by sharing the lessons, insights, and best practices gained by two veteran managers and organizational learning pioneers. The book makes organizational learning principles and concepts more concrete by grounding them in the practical experiences of two major companies.
The Power of Collaborative Leadership helps business leaders realize the promise of organizational learning by sharing lessons, insights, and best practices gained by Bert Frydman and Iva Wilson, two veteran managers and organizational learning pioneers. Together with JoAnne Wyer, a professional learning analyst, they show that in order to be effective leaders of business organizations, we must transform an organization's methods of absorbing new information and its ability to transform it into knowledge and wisdom. This book offers some provocative and practical ways to overcome many commonly held assumptions and practices that can actually impede learning and the improvement of the organization.
The Power of Collaborative Leadership helps business leaders realize the promise of organizational learning by sharing lessons, insights, and best practices gained by Bert Frydman and Iva Wilson, two veteran managers and organizational learning pioneers. Together with JoAnne Wyer, a professional learning analyst, they show that in order to be effective leaders of business organizations, we must transform an organization's methods of absorbing new information and its ability to transform it into knowledge and wisdom. This book offers some provocative and practical ways to overcome many commonly held assumptions and practices that can actually impede learning and the improvement of the organization.
- GenresLeadership
328 pages, Hardcover
First published September 15, 2000
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September 14, 2012
This book is an easy read, written by "doers" rather than academics. It was great to review interesting “discussion” about the experience of trying to introduce Systems Thinking and the culture of Organisational Learning in settings with command and control cultures that might be hostile.
This book has quite a lot of substance to reflect upon without being theoretical – lots on the "what and how" plus what can be learned.
- some cultural diagnostic ideas,
- common blocking routines and bad management behaviours in organisations,
- ideas about working differently but staying below "the alert level",
- delivering tangible results even if they are hard to "quantify",
- not breaking the culture so much it "snaps back".
I have taken at least a dozen points from this book that I will use.
This book has quite a lot of substance to reflect upon without being theoretical – lots on the "what and how" plus what can be learned.
- some cultural diagnostic ideas,
- common blocking routines and bad management behaviours in organisations,
- ideas about working differently but staying below "the alert level",
- delivering tangible results even if they are hard to "quantify",
- not breaking the culture so much it "snaps back".
I have taken at least a dozen points from this book that I will use.
Displaying 1 of 1 review